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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, we explore the ethical questions around vaccine distribution. Plus, how some pundits are inflating the odds of a Donald Trump criminal trial.

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0:00.0	This week, the media engage in wishful thinking that the vaccine will be an instant fix,
0:07.0	or that the president will be charged with a crime.
0:09.9	Yeah, I mean, one of the assumptions is that there is a criminal case.
0:13.4	It's just, you know, which one and where do you find it?
0:16.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.1	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:20.5	Frontline health workers are forced to make
0:23.2	ethical decisions leaders further up the chain are too chicken to take on. They're terrible decisions
0:28.8	to make and so they get shunted downward and downward until they're in the lap of the person
0:33.2	who's standing in front of the patient and cannot not make a decision. Also, COVID's changed the way we say goodbye to our dead,
0:40.9	leading us to face our grief in new ways, which are old ways.
0:45.4	He said, well, ordinarily, we would have a wake.
0:48.4	And I said, listen to me, she's in the bed, she's dead, this is your wake.
0:55.8	Oh, coming up after this.
0:59.9	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.8	Bob Garfield is out this week.
1:05.6	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.8	And this week saw Americans of all political humors,
1:12.8	bewitched by wishful thinking,
1:16.1	some seeing Donald Trump, after many stumbles,
1:18.1	finally on the path to victory.
1:22.4	17 states have joined Texas in support of its Supreme Court lawsuit,
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